Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-09-03
Holland Footwear.

The Dutch wear heavy wooden shoes,
which render their gait laborous and
ungaceful. A number of Dutch bellies
of the lower class drag these heavy
wooden shoes along with them. The
children seem to be able to manage
their wooden shoes much easier than
grown people. When dozen or more
little urchns indulge in romp in the
street they set up CHATTER which can
be heard for blocks. The mother who
wishes to find her naughty child, who
has left its task for street play. does
not at first use her eyes in the search
for the Juvenile delinquent. She quiet
ly sticks one of her ears out of the win
dow, and when she hears loud clatter
which suggests the tearing down OF
houses in the neighborhood she rushes
toward the sound. guided by her ears.
When, at length. breaking forth threat
cnngs and slaughter. she leads home
her shrleking offspring, the cries of the
latter are drowned by the muse of his
companions FOOTBALLS The great ad-
vantage of the wooden shoe is its stay
ing powers. Every one does not re-
qure new pair OF wooden shoes in
his or her lifetime. When the honest
citizen is informed by the blooming
daughter that she would like to have a
new pair of wooden shoes, he frowns
and says: MY child, what is the mat
ter with that pretty pair which your
grandmother received as her wedding
gift? They are still neat. although not
gaudy. lou must remember that
times are hard. and that family expen-
SEES must be kept down" The COM
mon people seem to understand how
TO live cheaply. Many of the laboring
men earn but two shillings a day, and
yet manage to support families. aud
lay mp enough money to give a decent
burial TO those members of their FAM
lies who find themselves unable to keep
up the task of trying to live.
In the town of Clymer, Chautauqua
county n. Y. is large settlement of
Hollanders. the older members of
which brought from their fatherland the
simple manners and industrious habits
which have always been characteristic
of that race. Nearly without exception
they are engaged in general farming
and dairying, and to supplement their
farm labors they have introduced an
industry which is carried on in no other
place in the Tn ION. This is tine making
of the wooden shoes or clogs which are
so common in Holland and some other
foreign countries. During the coolest
days and the long Winter evenings
these Hollanders ply their knives and
''shavcs" almost without cessation.
The business is really a monopoly. and
of late it has proved very profitable,
the demand for the clumsy shoes for
decorative purposes not only enhancing
their value. which the shrewd Dutch
men were quick to see, but increasing
the number called for very materially.
The woods used are Eastwood and Gu
cumbcr. Each shoe is bored and cut
from single block. They become so
well seasoned that a pair made in the
best manner is almost indestructible.
The bulk of these shoes is handlad by q
dealer in Cory. Pa, and large num-
Der are sent to the Philadelphia mar
ket 1t also requires great many to
supply the wants of the colony itself,
as the shoes are generally worn by both
sexes. There is something so odd
about wooden shoes that they are re-
garded us great curiosities, and are oft
en- found in museum collections. Regu-
lar wooden shoes modelled after the
old Dutch pattern are kept for sale in
many novelty stores in cities.-Boots
and Shoes.